In many selection processes, only the professional qualifications of a candidate play a central role. However, the personality profile of a candidate is also a success criterion for a function. That is, because the personality structure has a significant impact on the success of employees – both within their functions and across the organization. Often candidates…
The organizational ability of self-renewal plays an essential part in securing the competitiveness of a company. The foresighted self-renewal concept enables an organization to recognize and capture external signals at an early stage, so that required changes can be encouraged proactively.
Corporate strategy and goals as well as the organization’s relevant environments determine specific organizational requirements. For successful recruiting, said requirements have to be defined in job profiles. These job profiles have to take the strategy and future concepts as well as a target-performance analysis of present and future into account. Therefore, a professional job profile…
S&P Consulting‘s representative office in Shanghai has successfully transformed into the Chinese affiliate of “S&P Consulting International Consulting”. SEDLÁK & PARNTER has been active in Asia since 2011 and is located in one of the most popular business centers in Shanghai, the “Shanghai International Finance Centre” (IFC).
Our colleague, Dr. Yuan Zhao now steps into the position “Chief Consultant of Competency Development”. Her main responsibility is to conceptualize and produce company-specified PERFORMANCE SIMUALTORS. She is also responsible for developing and evaluating specific behavior indicators included in competence models that are based on the organizational DNA.
Because every swan I have ever seen was white, all swans must be white! If the contrary had not been proven true over time, this statement would sound quite reasonable. Until the 17th century Europeans firmly believed that all swans were white. The discovery of the black swan in Western Australia in the 18th century…
S&P Consulting has produced a PERFORMANCE SIMULATOR® to develop pedagogical leadership skills of teaching staff. This project was initiated by the Helga Breuninger Foundation and the “starting schools” in Baden-Wuerttemberg. The project partners, Dr. Helga Breuninger and Prof. Wilfried Schley, developed and implemented the content of PERFORMANCE SIMULATOR® DIRECTING, and S&P…
In times of increased competition and rising customer expectations, it is necessary to prove oneself in the market. A lot of organizations are hence confronted with the questions: How can we – with an attractive and individual service offer – achieve high customer loyalty? And how can we make it more difficult for our competitors…
For the purposes of quality assurance all consulting projects of S&P Consulting are regularly supervised by external renowned scientists and experts, so that it is possible to counteract the “blind spots” that a consulting company might also have. In this context, S&P Consulting welcomed Prof. Arist von Schlippe at the end of 2012. Prof. von…
Prof. Zhu, who is an expert in Education at East China Normal University, visited S&P Consulting in December 2012. The purpose of his visit was to more precisely define the planned cooperation between S&P Consulting and the East China Normal University Distance Education Research Center (ECNUDEC). Within the scope of a research project under the…